New Orleans American order of battle

The following units and commanders of the American armed forces under Andrew Jackson fought at the Battle of New Orleans during War of 1812.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Other

American forces

7th Military District: MG Andrew Jackson

General Staff

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Left Wing[1]


     MG William Carroll

Carroll's Brigade[2]


     MG William Carroll

  • 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col William Metcalf
  • 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col John Cocke
  • 3rd Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col James Raulston
Coffee's Brigade[3]


     BG John Coffee

  • 1st Regiment West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen: Col Robert Dyer
  • 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen: Col Thomas Williamson
  • Jugeant’s Choctaws: Major Pierre Jugeant
Adair's Brigade[4]


     BG John Adair

  • Slaughter’s Kentucky Militia: Ltc Gabriel Slaughter
  • Gray’s Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis (detached to West Bank)
  • Mitchusson’s Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc William Mitchusson

Right Wing[5]


     Col George T. Ross

Louisiana Militia and Volunteers[6]
  • Plauché’s Uniform Militia: Maj Jean Baptiste Plauché
  • Lacoste’s Free Men of Color: Major Pierre Lacoste
  • Daquin’s Free Men of Color: Major Louis Daquin
  • City Rifles: Captain Thomas Beale
  • Baratarians (gunners from Jean Lafitte's privateer crews)
U.S Regular Army[7]

Reporting directly

West Bank[8]


     BG David B. Morgan

  • Naval Battalion: Commodore Daniel Patterson
  • Louisiana Militia Battalion: Maj Paul Arnaud
  • Grey's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis
  • Additional Reinforcements from East Bank: General Humbert
Reserves[9]
  • Mississippi Dragoons: Maj Thomas Hinds
  • Detachment, 1st U.S. Dragoons: Ogden
  • Battalion, Kentucky Militia: Harrison

Resources

  1. Jean Lafitte National Historic Park Historic Resource Study
  2. Regimental Histories Units During the War of 1812
  3. Regimental Histories Units During the War of 1812
  4. Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, Kentucky in the War of 1812, pages 134-135
  5. Jean Lafitte National Historic Park Historic Resource Study
  6. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37
  7. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37
  8. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37
  9. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37
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